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Natural Connections

Modern life in Scotland is increasingly busy. The connections our ancestors had with nature and the land are being lost. As leisure time shrinks, or is filled with hi-tech experiences, opportunities to experience nature become fewer. And yet it is possible to connect with nature on a day to day basis. All around us, the great web of life continues to hold its shape, and nature continues its eternal cycles. Keep looking, listening, smelling, touching - and keep experiencing natural connections.

Saturday, July 10, 2010



Enjoyed an excellent walk around the farmland between Crookston and Paisley doing a Timed Tetrad Visit for the bird atlas. Highlights included a Treecreeper (rarely seen hereabouts), two singing Yellowhammers (above), good-sized flocks of Swifts, four or five Whitethroat territories, Swallows and House Martins feeding at several locations, breeding evidence for Mallard, Magpie, Jackdaw, Woodpigeon, Blackbird, Swallow, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Blue Tit and Great Tit, and two new birds for the tetrad and the whole area: Sand Martin and Reed Bunting. The walk back over the fields (below) was like stepping back in time, with the lanes full of finches and buntings.

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